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Party Crashing
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Keli Goff
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Challenging the Idea That One's Skin Color
Should Color One's Political Identity
For the last forty years the label "black voter" has been virtually synonymous with
"Democrat" but a new generation of voters is changing that. In her provocative new book, political commentator Keli Goff introduces America's newest swing voter. Like soccer moms and Nascar dads before them, young, black voters born after the Civil Rights Movement are becoming increasingly up for grabs, politically speaking.
Through in-depth interviews with young, black voters, groundbreaking survey research, and conversations with a range of high profile Americans - from Colin Powell to Russell Simmons - Party Crashing explores the issues and people who have helped shape the politics of the post-Civil Rights Generation, and how this generation is reshaping America ...
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Racial Paranoia
The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness The New Reality of Race in America
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John Jackson
A provocative new paradigm of race relations in the twenty-first century, in which the overt racism of the past has been replaced by subconscious suspicions and whispered conspiracy theories
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Introducing Bert Williams
Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star
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Camille Forbes
From the traveling troupes of the Wild West all the way to the bright lights of Broadway, Bert Williams broke through the color barriers and changed the face of the American stage
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Being Sugar Ray
Sugar Ray Robinson, America's Greatest Boxer and First Celebrity Athlete
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Kenneth Shropshire
A biography of Sugar Ray Robinson and an intellectual expedition into the culture of celebrity in sports
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April 4, 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America
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Michael Eric Dyson
On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King-the prophet for racial and economic
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An Unbroken Agony
Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President of a President
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Randall Robinson
Bestselling author and bold social commentator, Randall Robinson explores the singularly curious and ultimately tragic history of Haiti
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Debating Race
with Michael Eric Dyson
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Michael Eric Dyson
Bestselling author Michael Eric Dyson collects his previously unpublished intellectual encounters-cordial and combative-with some of today’s most influential thinkers and politicians
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